sensuousness

Example Sentences

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Clara’s private, phantasmal liberation signals the influence of the John Cassavetes film “Opening Night,” but Bridey’s images do not aspire to the sensuousness of that inspiration.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2019

They have to do with touch, with tenderness, with giving things their proper weight, with accepting and relishing the sensuousness in things, with knowing when to stand back.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2018

That high-pile sentence makes no effort to separate the allure of costly appliances from the sensuousness of the coffee and the dark cream.

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2017

Perhaps, fearful of losing the attention of their readers, novelists are borrowing the captivating force of music, feeding off its sensuousness in an effort to regain a lost immediacy.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 27, 2015

His later books are less imitative; the influence of Verlaine and Baudelaire is not so apparent; the sophistication is less cynical, the sensuousness more restrained.

From Modern British Poetry by Untermeyer, Louis